Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Doctor (Paramount). In the theatre this was The Boomerang, an unpretentious comedy about a doctor and a pretty nurse. As a talking picture built around that able farceur Richard Dix, it is satisfactory entertainment?even at times uproarious. It may be fairly evident when the doctor tells his nurse how to arouse the symptoms of love in a patient that she is going to practice the knowledge on him, but obviousness rather accentuates than spoils the comedy. Best shot: Dix telling his fiancée about his new job at the lunatic asylum...
...jeopardizing their credit standing. Gleeful, therefore, were newsgatherers last week to find one person who admitted her losses, flaunted the amount, even named the stocks she had had. She, a Miss Margaret Shotwell. 19, of Omaha, said that she had lost more than $1,000,000 in Montgomery Ward, Paramount, Cities Service, General Motors...
...Sweetie (Paramount). Frankly extravagant, Sweetie is a football romance staged at a musical comedy college where the students are well-known film players doing entertainment specialties. William Austin is the sissified professor. Helen Kane carries an air-rifle and sings her "poop-a-doop" songs. Nancy Carroll is the pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something...
...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
Welcome Danger (Paramount). Like all Harold Lloyd's comedies, this is built around a character fundamentally sensible and likable but who seems crazy because of some predominant trait or mania. Botany is the current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting...